How to let windows 11 "never combine taskbar buttons"?

So at the time of writing this there are 283k views, 586 Likes, and 1,053 replies to this change in standard (notice I don't call it a feature!, this was the standard not a feature). Yet nothing has been done since July 2021. Yet I seem to get almost weekly updates from MS on other stuff, most of which does nothing productive (like recently changing my tabs in excel to rounded instead of sharp corners). These frequent changes and changes to look/appearance and sometimes functionality are frustrating. It is increasingly frustrating as standard features like do not combine are taken away which significantly decrease my productivity EVERY DAY! I'm due for a new computer in about a year, if things don't improve I'm going to seriously consider an Apple as all the benefits I have loved about MS over the last 30 years are quickly eroding.